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Paul Celan Today

A Companion
  • Edited by: Michael Eskin , Karen Leeder and Marko Pajević
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2021
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Marking Paul Celan's 100th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death, this volume endeavours to answer the following question: why does Celan still matter today – more than ever perhaps? And why should he continue to matter tomorrow? In other words, the volume explores and assesses the enduring significance of Celan's life and œuvre in and for the 21st century. Boasting cutting-edge research by international scholars together with original contributions by contemporary artists and writers, this book attests to, on the one hand, the extent to which large swathes of contemporary philosophy, poetics, literary scholarship, and aesthetics have been indebted to Celan's legacy and are simply unthinkable without it, and, on the other hand, to the malleability, adaptability, breadth and depth of Celan's poetics, which, like the music of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, or Queen, is reborn and rediscovered with every new generation.
  • 5 original contributions by writers and artists
  • 16 cutting-edge studies on topics related to Celan’s literary environment, on issues of translation and multilingualism, of philosophy, politics and the arts
  • The relevance of Celan today and tomorrow

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Marko Pajevic, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; Michael Eskin, Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc.; Karen Leeder, New College, Oxford, UK.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Table of Contents

    V
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    A Note on Translations

    VII
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    Introduction

    1
    Michael Eskin
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    Paul Celan’s Bukovina-Meridians

    5
    Amy-Diana Colin and Andrei Corbea-Hoisie
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    A ‘Poet in Destitute Times’. Paul Celan and the West German Literary Scene of the 1950s and 1960s

    39
    Helmut Böttiger
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    Translating the Night. On Paul Celan and Fragment 178 of René Char’s Feuillets d’Hypnos

    57
    Thomas C. Connolly
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    Translating in a ‘Wholly Other’ German. ‘Ricercar’

    79
    Camilla Miglio
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    Celan in English

    101
    Charlie Louth
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    ‘Ruf’s, das Schibboleth, hinaus - in die Fremde der Heimat’. gebietscelan in the Poetry of José F. A. Oliver

    121
    Áine McMurty
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    Philosophical readings of Paul Celan in France. Three Steps

    143
    Denis Thouard
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    Language, Barred. Paul Celan’s Poetological Reduction

    159
    Kristina Mendicino
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    Breath Turn, Linguistic Turn, Political Activism. Reading Celan’s Poems of 1967

    181
    Christine Ivanovic
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    Beyond Poetry. Celan’s Red Folder, May 1968

    201
    Chiara Caradonna
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    Paul Celan’s Successors. From Reverence to Transduction

    221
    Sue Vice
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    ‘almost - you would - have lived’. Reading Paul Celan in Colombia

    243
    Cherilyn Elston
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    Between Poetry and Prayer. A Kaddish for Paul Celan

    265
    Eric Kligerman
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    Celan’s Correspondence and Correspondence with Celan. Transfer Processes of Life

    287
    Marko Pajević
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    Four Images

    307
    Anselm Kiefer
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    Memorial

    311
    Peter Waterhouse
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    Breath

    319
    Edmund de Waal
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    ‘Huhediblu’

    325
    Ulrike Draesner
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    We Are All Migrants of Language. A Conversation

    339
    Michael Eskin and Durs Grünbein
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    Paul Celan. A Select Bibliography

    349
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    Contributors

    363
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    Index

    365
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
August 23, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110658330
Paperback published on:
August 23, 2021
Paperback ISBN:
9783110653403
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
7
Main content:
373
Illustrations:
15
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110658330
eBook ISBN: 9783110658330
Paperback ISBN: 9783110653403
Keywords for this book
Paul Celan; Literature and Philosophy; Literature and Politics; Literature and the Arts; Poetry
Audience(s) for this book
Students and Scholars of Literary Studies; German Studies; Translation Studies; Philosophy
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